Poetic Devices

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Hyperbole- is exaggeration or overstatement.

Alliteration- is the repetition of initial sounds in neighboring words

Rhythm & Rhyme - is a pattern of words that contain similar sounds

Metaphor- the comparison of two unlike things

Analogy- is the comparison of two pairs which have the same relationship

Repetition- is the simple repeating of the word

Personification- A figure of speech in which an inanimate object or abstraction is endowed with human qualities or abilities

Allusion- An indirect reference to some piece of knowledge not actually mentioned

Euphemism- Is a word or phrase used in place of a term that originally could not be spoken out loud

Imagery- A set of mental pictures or images

Irony- the use of words to convey a meaning that is the opposite of its literal meaning

Malapropism- inappropriate use of a word

Onomatopoeia- Onomatopoeia are words that sound like the objects they name or the sounds those objects make

Oxymoron- A figure of speech in which incongruous or contradictory terms appear side by side

Satire- A work of literature that mocks social conventions, another work of art, or anything its author thinks ridiculous

Simile- A figure of speech in which two essentially unlike things are compared

Symbol- Something that represents something else by association